Category Archives: BIG DATA

D&B Appoints Paul D. Ballew Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Almost unnoticed and without fanfare D&B is ramping up its data and analytics capabilities by hiring Paul D. Ballew as Chief Data and Analytics Officer.    He will be responsible for global data and information management, customer analytics, predictive analytics and … Continue reading

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International Business Machines Corp.: IBM Brings the Power of Analytics to Social Business

IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled new software and services that delivers comprehensive networking capabilities to the increasingly social savvy workforce. Now, organizations can apply analytics to their social business initiatives, allowing them to gain actionable insight on social networking sentiment anytime, … Continue reading

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It Is Big Data Week, So It Seems and The World Will Never Be the Same Again

Its Big Data week, yet again . In the last two months we have seen all of the dramas and confusions attendant upon emerging markets , yet none of the emerging clarity which one might expect when a total sea … Continue reading

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Managing Data Growth is Ranked Number 2 in IT Priorities

An ESG survey indicated that managing data growth is ranked number two in IT priorities for 2011.  Uncontrolled growth within database applications can negatively impact a business’ ability to simultaneously control cost and maintain application performance levels. In the same … Continue reading

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Big Data Unleashed – Turning Big Data into Big Opportunities

This white paper examines the challenges and opportunities with Big Data, outlines real-world use cases of organizations using Informatica to transform Big Data into business benefits, and details groundbreaking capabilities in Informatica 9.1 to empower the data-centric enterprise.  This White … Continue reading

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The Landmark Year of Incorporating Content into Workflow

Under the rather eye catching headline The Ape and the iPad David Worlock, BIIA’s Chairman,  stated that the key trends of 2011 will always be, for him, the landmark strides made towards incorporating content into the workflow of professionals , … Continue reading

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Improved Risk Management via Data Quality Improvement

Not too long ago the Economist published an article which blamed in part poor data quality at banks for the 2008 financial melt-down.  In essence data silos and poor data quality had exacerbated the problem of accurately determine the risk … Continue reading

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General Electric to Leverage Big Data

GE has announced a US$1bn investment in software development to provide big data services to industrial clients.  The facility will be located at a new global software headquarters outside San Francisco and will house 400 newly-hired software developers. GE has … Continue reading

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